I am planning out the cameras in my house I am building and plan on using PoE cameras. I would like to place 1 camera at my front gate. I am looking at 700-800 of buried cable to that camera so I was planning on using a coax adapter. Since the cabling will all be new will it make a difference if I use RG59 vs RG6? Anything else I should be considering?
Coax type for long PoE run
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59 was replaced by 6, if the cable companies need to go further distances they use 11. You could use cat6 with epoe switch/nvr and camera or if your gate is powered run fiber
Is that a POE switch with extend mode? I saw the extenders that are put in line and add another 100m but with the cable buried I did not want to go that route. Not gonna go fiber for power concerns.
So if I do go coax I will be ok with RG6? What is bringing on this question is the Lorex coax to ethernet adapter only says compatible with Rg59 and doesn't mention rg6.
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Welcome @AndyJ182
If running a new run, I would highly recommend running a buried conduit that is wide enough for your data cables, as well as a separate one for your electrical.
I would run at least a 3/4" PVC for the data conduit. This will give some protection to the run.
Due to electrical storms I would consider fiber instead of cat6 / coax at that distance.
You would need electrical at the other end, thus the 2 conduits I would be looking for.
Running 2 conduits and large enough electrical wiring to provide any sort of usable amperage without excessive voltage drop will run into thousands of dollars. That is before fiber cost and any other fiber related hardware .That is cost prohibitive for a single camera.
Why is the second conduit recommended? Fiber is not susceptible to EMI like a normal analog or digital signal
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